Intelligence: Another Cold War Ghost

INTELLIGENCE: Another Cold War Ghost: There was no official word on who the suspected spy was working for, but t...

August 15, 2012: Germany recently arrested a 60 year old German man and charged him with spying at the NATO Ramstein Air Base. The accused was found to have transferred classified data to a computer at his home. Increasingly, Ramstein is becoming a hub and headquarters for NATO military activities and a prime target for foreign spies. There was no official word on who the suspected spy was working for, but the story was he had been offered millions of dollars to obtain large quantities of NATO data for Russian intelligence. This would be no surprise. In the last decade Russia has earned considerable criticism throughout Europe because of its growing espionage activities. Most of the Russian spying these days is in search of new technology, either military or civilian. During the Cold War the Russians also sought military secrets, which are not seen as worth much to the Rus...

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